[cc-community] What does NC means?

Enrique Vargas enrique.vargas at jyestudio.com
Sat Sep 15 19:01:58 EDT 2007


I am working with an group of religious authors and composers to create 
a free liturgical songbook. After some conversations it was agreed to 
adopt the CC BY-NC-ND license. The rationale was:

- By using a CC licence we indicate the songbook is free (libre)
- BY - pretty obvious here
- NC - because the authors didn't wanted others using the songbook or 
hymns for profit. That also meant to us no advertising. For example, if 
a for-profit entity wants to sponsor the copies of the songbook, that's 
fine, but they are not allowed to put advertisements, for example, in 
the back of the songbook, if that is to promote sales for their business.
- ND - Because each hymn is going to undergo a validation process. Once 
the hymns are approved, changes to the lyrics or melodies are not allowed.

We are not experts in copyright, so there is always a chance that there 
is something we overlook. But we are glad Creative Commons provided that 
option. Perhaps this is a good example of the usefulness of NC and ND.

Regards;
Enrique Vargas


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